Pontefract Hospital

Pontefract’s reliable DR room still in service 12 years on

In 2010, Pontefract Hospital, part of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, was the first hospital in the UK to install the Carestream DRX-Evolution room. Nearly 12 years later, with over 113 patients daily and 496,501 exposures, the room is still in use. Supplier of diagnostic imaging products Medray says this demonstrates the capability and […]

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CT injectors reduce waste contrast at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals

Team leader Mike Goalby and Guerbet business development manager Stephen Green with CT radiographers Kristian Fairclough, Olivia Blackburn, Abigail Hartley and Louise Douthwaite. Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has benefitted from the installation of five new FlowSens CT injectors from Guerbet Laboratories.  The syringeless injectors, installed in Pontefract Hospital, Dewsbury and District Hospital and Pinderfields […]

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Mid-Yorkshire upgrades ultrasound services with 15 scanners

Toshiba Medical Systems ultrasound applications specialist Louise Higgins, clinical support workers Rebecca Holliday and Amber Richardson, Toshiba ultrasound applications specialist Dawn Ingham, radiology service manager Sue Robinson, consultant sonographer Alison McGuinness, clinical support worker Catherine Pollard, advanced practitioner sonographer Sally Hodgkins and student sonographer Amy Grimley. Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which includes Pinderfields, Pontefract and […]

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Variety of uses for ultrasound at Pontefract

At a training session by Toshiba Medical Systems for Mid-Yorks NHS Trust are Toshiba ultrasound specialist Dawn Ingham, advanced practitioner sonographers Sandra Morrissey, Rachel Barr and Diane Playforth, with Toshiba ultrasound applications specialist Louise Higgins on the right.   Toshiba Medical Systems has supplied ultrasound equipment to recently opened hospitals in Pontefract and Wakefield.   […]

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